Bout: Cinematography

Ben has written a script from the 'Observe Someone' idea and now we have begun discussing the look and lighting of the film.
The film follows a boxer who has been kicked of the boxing 'circuit' and is finding hard to live life without boxing. He becomes frustrated in social situations and this is the emotion we are trying to portray.
Ben has told me he would like a moody, almost noir-ish look for the film, with which I agreed as it would suit the emotion of frustration. I thought that using shadows within the frame to try and fragment the boxers face and body, making him be read as conflicted, and to try and isolate him with in the frame, so that he would look alone.

I have begun drawing initial storyboards and impressions of shots that I think will help Ben achieve his goal of portraying the emotion of frustration. My intention is then to take them to Ben so we can sit down together and he can tell me what he likes, if there is anything he would like to change or to have and to work towards having a set of shots that he and I are happy with for the final film.